Three things

Apathy Jack writes:

Thing Primus

A criminal has been going into banks and supermarkets, hypnotising the cashiers, and robbing the tills while they stand there in a mesmerised stupor.

I’ve been keeping half an eye on outbreaks of the twenty-first century, but this is even better – it’s a 1970’s cartoon. Seriously, in a few days we’re going to see news reports about this guy being caught by a group of plucky pubescent adventurers or a super hero in a badly mismatched costume.


Thing Secondus

Big Bad Wolves, the short film made by local talent-repository Rajneel Singh has finally come to the internet. It is findable here. It is a very amusing, and very dark (and probably not all that work safe) retelling of Red Riding Hood, through a bunch of Tarantino-esque gangsters. Also in the link are Raj’s other works, including a couple of music videos by local artists. Of special mention is The Fanimatrix; a Matrix fan-film that was downloaded a couple of million times when it was first put on the intertubes, making it one of New Zealand’s most-watched short films. (Also, it contains RSJS being kicked in the chest – good fun for all the family.)


Thing Tertius

Scroobius Pip, in collaboration with someone or something called Yila, has got a new track, called Astronaut. Seriously, if you don’t like Scroobius Pip, I don’t think you and I can be friends. Watch:

Apathy Jack writes:

The last installment of Beard Week - and what a week it has been - brings you bearded scribe Warren Ellis. Although there is better footage of his beard out there than the bellow clip, this is him telling an anecdote about yesterday's subject, Alan Moore, so I thought it worthy of inclusion.

Apathy Jack writes:

Penultimate beard - for certain values of penultimate, because writer Alan Moore has a beard that defies description. Here it is for a minute-long excerpt of him talking about some of his works.

Apathy Jack writes:

Here, in the next installment of Beard Week, is Scroobius Pip, with the latest from his collaboration with Dan Le Sac, called The Beat That My Heart Skipped, the bearded romantic...

Apathy Jack writes:

Continuing with Beard Week, The Management are proud to present Liam Finn. Sure, he's not to all tastes, and that second single he's released gets pretty boring after you realise it's not going to get any faster, and don't even start me on Betchdupa... However, since going solo, Finn has been rocking a beard you could use to trap a large mammal. So here is his very catchy first single, Second Chance:

This! Is! Sparta!

Apathy Jack writes:

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Originally uploaded by Brain Stab

So, my friends JSR and Annette have started up a podcast, wonderfully called Is It Nap Time. You can listen to it here, and I wholeheartedly recommend you do so…

One thing they mention that is of grave concern to me, and indeed to the world, is that recent research suggests that only seven percent of women find beards attractive. Now, there’s no great secret as to why this is the case; it’s simply that ninety-three percent of women are wrong about what is attractive.

However, just so that there’s no confusion on this serious issue, here begins Brain Stab’s Week Of Beards. What is involved in this is Beards.

Here, to begin, is Burning Beard, by Clutch, where the lead singer, Neil Fallon, possesses a beard you could get lost in, and levitates through the holy power of rock.

Bearded rock.

That’s right.